Samsung on Track to Take Intel's Chip Crown

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Rumored second-quarter earnings suggest that Samsung is poised to overtake Intel as the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer. Intel has led the industry in yearly revenue for 26 years, but soaring memory chip sales have allowed Samsung to break that tradition. Additionally, the company is cementing its position by investing around $18.6 billion toward memory chips and next-generation smartphone displays.

The South Korean tech giant, Asia's third-largest company by market capitalization, is now poised to knock Intel off the top of the global semiconductor market-share rankings for the first time since 1991. "From the second quarter, Samsung will become No. 1 in market share due to the recent increase in data centers and demand for solid-state drives," NH Investment & Securities analyst Peter Lee wrote in a note to clients. Samsung's April-June operating profit is expected to leap 67 percent from a year earlier to 13.1 trillion won ($11.4 billion), a new high, according to the average forecast from a Thomson Reuters survey of 18 analysts.
 
Samsung makes good stuff on its fabs.

Edit: And opens it up to third parties and licenses it.
 
Apples and Oranges obviously. Do we also start comparing them against chip manufacturers that make chips that go into blow-driers and smart litter-boxes? What is the fastest Desktop computer processor that Samsung makes?
 
Soaring memory prices, stable SSD prices and not considering their mobile division = record revenue.

Huh.

Who knew.
 
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We're a cunt hair away from Samsung being turned into a smoking crater, along with a lot of other things...
 
they better wake up and let all the THAAD systems be installed ... just saying
 
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liveload said:
We're a cunt hair away from Samsung being turned into a smoking crater, along with a lot of other things...
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Sad but true.
 
So, what are they going to do when memory prices finally drop again.
 
ManofGod said:
So, what are they going to do when memory prices finally drop again.
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When the prices drop, Samsung will keep making more memory of course.
While they continue to innovate and lower the cost of manufacturing.
Same as it ever was.
 
Jim Kim said:
When the prices drop, Samsung will keep making more memory of course.
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And no longer be the biggest semi conductor company by profits anymore. :D (Yes, I am an AMD fan but I do own a Gear S2, Gear Fit2 and a Samsung 4k monitor.)
 
Naah. Its along the same lines as apple being the most <something concerning cell phones>' . In actuality, android phones "DOMINATE" the cell phone industry. Over 75% of all smart phones are android - Samsung, yeah. Samsung.......hmmmmmm. But nevertheless, its a puff up story. About making it seem that its revelant instead of relating the fact that samsung use intel chips in their back end production and if there werent any cpu manuf, samsung would'nt have a chip to stand on. ARM based cpu's dont run the machines that make the chips. But, new dogs get a bit of publicity, its just that the guys selling the text are just looking at the profit publicity.

If the converstaion is about "whole foods", the fact that they only feed a small percentage of people isnt put out there. They are a multi billion dollar new way to sell groceries so forget the real facts.
Just make it look like whole foods feeds america. Samsung is into different things than chips. Intel is more diverse in the chip field.
 
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